Harness-tree seat.



\ No. 763,994. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

R. MILLER.

HARNESS TREE SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Irina/w f 1 W d@ @MJ lUNiTEn STATES Patented July 5, 1904u PATENTOEETcE,

RICHARD MILLER, OF NEV BERLIN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO IVILLIAM H. HOOVER, OFNEW BERLIN, OHIO.

HARNESS-TREE SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,994, dated July 5,1904.

Application led May 23, 1902. Serial No. 108,665. (No medelJ Be it knownthat I, RICHARD MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at NewBerlin, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Harness-Tree Seats; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description oi'the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specilication, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, inwhich-- Figure I is a longitudinal section of the seat, showing a sideview of the connecting thimble or head in proper position to beconnected or seated. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the seat, alsoa longitudinal section of the thimble or connecting-head, showing thesame properly connected to the seat. F ig. 3 is a longitudinal sectionof the head, a cross-section of the tree showing the parts properlyconnected together.

The present invention has relation to improvements in the means forconnecting the seat and harness-tree together when said parts are formedof sheet metal; and it consists in the novel construction andarrangement hereinafter described.

It will be understood that by forming the seat and tree of stamped metalthe parts must necessarily be thin, and hence little metal surrounds theapertures through which it is desired to place screws, and hence thereis not a suflicient amount of metal to provide any great number ofscrew-threaded convolutions.

My improvement consists in providing a connecting thimble or head of theproper length and forming a screw-threaded aperture in the head toreceive a corresponding screwthreaded connecting-screw; and it furtherconsists in providing an annular groove upon the periphery oi' thethimble or connecting-head and in bending the metal of the part or partsto which the thimble or connecting-head is to be attached at an angle,said angle portion being located around and adjacent to the aperturethrough which the thimble or head is to be passed.

In use when the aperture is formed in the part to which the thimble orcoupling-head is to be attached the metal supporting the aperture isbent at an angle in either direction, the coupling-head brought intoposition so that the annular groove will receive the periphery of theangle portion surrounding the aperture, after -which the thimble orcoupling-head is moved endwise, carrying with it the bent or angledportions until it is brought into the position illustrated in Figs. 2and 3.

In the accompanying drawings, l represents a seat which may be or' anydesired style and is formed of sheet metal by means of a die or dies andis provided with an aperture 2, around which aperture is located orformed the angled flange 3. The thimble or couplinghead 4 is providedwith the annular groove 5,

`which annular groove is formed of such a depth that room is provided toallow the angled flange 3 to be brought into the position illustrated inFig. 2 and seated in the annular groove 5. The annular groove should beso located with reference to the end of the thimble or coupling-head 4that when said thimble or coupling-head is brought into its normalposition the end of the head will be flush with the surface of the seator harnesstree, as the case may be. It will be further understood thatby my peculiar arrangement I am enabled to provide means for asutlicient amount of metal to provide the desired number ofscrew-threaded convolutions to propproper position and held withoutmovementindependent of said tree and seat, or, in other words, toproperly clamp all the parts togethen I have illustrated my improvementas applied more particularly to the seat l; but I do not desire to beconfined to the attachment of the thimble or coupling-head to the seat,as it will be understood that it is immaterial so far as the inventionis concerned Whether the thimble or coupling-head is connected to theseat or to the tree, as it is only a transposition.

It will be understood that by using metal that can be bent the metaladjacent to the groove formed in the thimble of couplinghead 4 can beseated into the groove equal to the depth of the groove, and therebysecurely connect the thimble or coupling-head to the seat.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a stamped seat provided Y With an aperture, the metalsurrounding said RICHARD MILLER.

/Vitnesses:

J. A. JEFFERS, F. W. BOND.

